Avocado Sandwich – or: writer's block blogging

Ok, I probably have confused one or two of you with the title of this post. Today the entry isn't elegant and there isn't a matching story that somehow fits the recipe.

My question therefore: Do you consider this important?

I love blogging: I love cooking and have a lot of fun baking, photography has become one of my favorite hobbies and writing I do actually really like, as well.

Actually.

Because time and again, I unfortunately find myself in the situation to sit before the blank screen and suddenly it is right there: the writer's block. I often ask myself for several hours: “How do I start?” Speaking I have to start no problem, since it is more difficult to stop me in my fluency 😉 In writing, however, I come from time to time in such an uncomfortable position.

Are you familiar with that? If not, then I envy you a quite a bit. For there is nothing more frustrating than having a great recipe with great pictures on hand and not knowing where to begin.

“Ok” I think to myself, “first of all, type out the recipe“. I do so dutifully, reformat the text and take care of other technical details. And then I face the same problem once again “How do I start now? What would my readers care about?” I begin to write, but delete the text shortly thereafter because I just am not happy with it. The whole issue, on a bad day, is repeated several times until I get frustrated flip my laptop shut and occupy myself with something else. “Distraction is good“. But unfortunately it does not always help, because now and then you have cooked or baked “merely” something delicious, have beautiful pictures, but not a story to enclose it.

What do I do then? The images remain on the computer's hard disk one provides its readers with another recipe instead, where you know immediately what you want to write about. The original treat then is sidelined forever, though it's taste may very well keep up with the others.

That was exactly the case with this avocado sandwich. I have prepared this ages ago, loved the taste, my photo were also presentable, but did not know what I should write about this being worth reading. But I would not deny you this great recipe any longer:

recipe

Avocado Sandwich

Total time

15min

Avocado Sandwich

Ingredients: (For 4 pieces)

8 large slices of toast

1 ripe avocado

12 slices of bacon

4-6 cocktail tomatoes

4 slices of cheese, according to taste

Salt and pepper

Preparation:

Pit the avocado, detach the flesh, as possible in the whole, off the skin and then cut into thin slices.

Wash the cherry tomatoes and cut them into slices, as well.

Brown the bacon in a frying pan and drain on kitchen paper.

The slices of bread can you either toast – or how to do in my case briefly on a grill pan – or use cold.

Now garnish the sandwiches with cheese, avocado, tomato and 3 slices of bacon each. Season your sandwiches finally with salt and pepper – most directly onto the avocado and let it taste you 🙂

18 comments for "Avocado Sandwich – or: writer's block blogging"

Dear Elena, I think you write the words of others from the soul. There are with me in any case such days. While reading your article, I thought about what I would write. Great recipe, great pictures and what great words would fit. I would think so nothing off the cuff. Important and very good it was all that the recipe was published. 🙂 what it would have been a shame if the recipe would have perished only because of lack of words? Thus You have satisfied fully, so that we have but still get to see all of this delicacy. Thank you for that and greetings Roger

Hello Elena, So I read blogs while very happy just because of the personal touch (which they indeed of “anonymous recipes” distinguish, for which definitely includes the writing, but can also be a blog with pictures and recipes convince my taste. I would advise you to make yourself not think too much, and also quiet times to publish a recipe, without the perfect story. I consider it anyway. Although I try to write something Matching to each blog post. But sometimes it also happens that I can think of nothing, and then I publish a recipe halt anyway and just write two sentences about how it tasted good to me, I think that is okay. To me probably good that I'm not a perfectionist 😉 Kind regards, Sarah

Hello Sarah, Thanks for your advice. Somehow I have never dared to publish a recipe with me so far little text around it. The looks in my opinion always so empty and I thought my readers might think that I would not give me any more trouble. All the more pleased to read that I was wrong in this case. Once again thank you for it! In the future, I will still publish the recipe at a writer's block and just let the pictures speak 😉

I've also found that it falls to me much easier to find an introduction when I promptly verblogge the recipe after cooking. Since you can just directly write how it happened that you have cooked this dish a few days ago and what is happening around it. But if I have dishes that I've cooked or baked weeks time, I find it even more difficult to write something.

I agree with you completely. It would certainly be ideal to verbloggen everything in a timely manner, but in everyday life comes but then one or the other in between, and the contribution is then first “forget”, Since I would be back at one of my biggest construction sites: Time Management 😉

Thank you for these words! I thought I'm the only one! Mir is actually every other blog post like this. Earlier I had posted my recipes without much preface, but now how do you think that looks then so empty and impersonal. If I do not know, I often get my inspiration in magazines or cookbooks. Since then submit just a few words, that the blockade is achieved in the head. And at a pinch that's just too easy sometimes only one sentence. Keep it up, you do it just right, I read your posts always loved!

Dear Julia, Thank you! It's nice to read that someone enjoys reading my posts and it is worth so much time and heart blood to invest. Your tip with the cookbooks I remember. So far I have since always looking for inspiration in order to recipes or photos, but it might get an idea for a story – after, I've never come 😉

Oh yeah, that is very familiar to me! I sit currently also on a Blogpsot and did not really know what to write… Especially if you have lots of photos (like me) trying to fill in a little so the article with text, is just not that simple. I then ask myself often what I want to convey to the post and the recipe. I associate it with an event, family, etc. But occasionally comes nix, gaaar nothing. 😀 I think that is normal. make easy break and move on if you have an inspiration.

Your sandwich looks incredibly delicious! I love avocado and bacon… oh I have to think to try. did everything as 🙂

Hello Anett, that with the break I try mostly, but not always bring what 😉 real beautiful pictures you have on your blog, because I could see my fill without much text 🙂 I'm curious how you liked my sandwich variant!

Honestly, I'm doing so many times and the discharges are usually relatively short. And if it is sometimes more, it's just more 🙂 The recipe here way, I find great because it fits well with my lunchbox project 😉 Best regards, Irina

Hi Elena, it's nice to know that you are nocht the only one that has an occasional writer's block. In the beginning I found it much more difficult still, now it runs with writing reasonably 🙂 Have a nice evening and send dearest regards, As